The Villain Of The Horror Game Dreams Of The Heroine Every Night

Chapter 92

Rose didn’t want Celine to walk across Livron Castle, as she had already put everything in her power to stop the cogs. So, she asked for horses, a carriage and a coachman who did not inhale the smoke before picking Celine up.

“You don’t have to do this…”

“So, are you going to walk?”

“…That is too much.”

“See?”

Rose smiled and leaned back against her backrest.

“Rest a bit. If Lord Leonhard is really trapped in that maze, it will take a year to find him.”

“Tell me about the maze.”

“Hmm…”

Rose frowned.

“As far as I know, no one has ever been inside and returned alive in recent hundreds of years?”

“….”

“I don’t know anything other than that. Oh, I think I’ve heard that it’s full of ghosts.”

Celine gulped. The more she listened to what Rose said, the stronger she felt that the stage was the knights’ lodging they were heading to.

“Where is the location?”

“It’s a corner.”

Rose laughed softly.

“It was a building that was used only to intimidate disobedient knights for generations.”

‘…No way.’

“The current Carpathia received the building, but what did they do as soon as they became Carpathia…”

Rose clicked her tongue low.

‘….’

Celine couldn’t stop her stiffening face.

‘…The Knights of Paradiso received a building like that.’

Even though she didn’t know much about the knights, she was able to make a judgment based on what she had seen with the Knights of Paradiso. They were clearly being treated unfairly.

‘Even so, they cut monsters… similar to Leonhard.’

Celine sighed.

She obviously couldn’t blame the Knights of Paradiso or people like Leonhard. However, whenever she confirmed that they would only suffer damage rather than a reward for their achievements, her heart felt tight.

“Think positively. First of all, the fact that there is a knight currently in use of the building maybe isn’t as bad as the rumors say… Ack!”

Rose let out a small scream as the carriage rocked greatly.

“What is going on?”

She raised her voice loudly and asked the coachman.

“It’s, it’s like an earthquake! Get off!”

“What…?”

Though before they could get off, the frightened horse started to run somewhere at full speed.

“Should, shouldn’t we stop?”

“…Leave it to me.”

Rose looked out of the window for a moment before she took a deep breath.

—Whoosh!

With a roar, the entire carriage rose into the air, but it did not fall back to the ground. Celine couldn’t figure out the situation, so she just sat there, frozen in her seat. Meanwhile, the carriage was half overturned, but they did not suffer any shocks.

Rose calmly opened the door.

“Let’s go.”

“What…?”

“It’s okay.”

Then, she smiled and took Celine’s hand.

“We just arrived nearby. I was worried that it would go to a very distant place.”

Celine hesitantly slipped through the knocked-down door. A haggard-looking coachman looked at them with his knees on the ground.

“Lute! The, the carriage…”

Rose apologized with an expression that didn’t look apologetic at all.

“I’m sorry. Because of the mission, I couldn’t help it. Charge double the price of the carriage to the imperial family. If you can’t find a horse, include the horse too.”

Celine realized they were on top of a fairly large pile of dirt. The carriage, which seemed to have been forced off the horses, was half-embedded in the soft earth. Since she was also a wizard, Celine did not have to listen to detailed explanations from Rose.

She thanked Rose by descending the mound.

“Thank you.”

“Celine saved my life too, so I can do this much?”

At those words, she blushed.

“Don’t be too much. It was because I didn’t want to lose my life.”

“You’re too humble, aren’t you?”

“….?”

“In any case, it is true that dozens of wizards, including myself, were saved. If you’ve done such a great job, show off. You can’t save face.”

Celine laughed instead of answering.

Suddenly, the ground roared again.

‘At a time like this, an earthquake…’

At the sudden realization, she bit her lips.

‘…It can’t be a coincidence.’

Naturally, this earthquake would also be part of the stage. Celine remembered that the next stage was an ‘underground’ maze.

‘Could it be that the ground cracked open to reveal the labyrinth?’

However, Rose gave her no time to stop and think.

“Celine, it may be difficult, but move. If we stay like this, there will be no point in coming here.”

She obediently followed Rose’s words. Even if the ground cracks, the labyrinth would appear near the Knights Building.

After a while, they arrived at the entrance of the Knights Building.

‘It’s better than I thought?’

Celine took a closer look at the building, amazed at how well-maintained it was, surprisingly for a haunted building.

It was as well-maintained as any other building she had ever seen in Livron Castle. Even though the ground still shook, they staggered forward. Fortunately, the vibration was not enough to destroy the building. Just a little uncomfortable.

‘…A horse?’

Celine blinked her eyes.

In the hallway that she saw as soon as she entered the entrance, a horse was pacing.

“Looks like someone is here.”

Rose was also a little surprised.

“In this building… who is it?”

They immediately knew the identity of the person riding the horse.

“Lute Celine?”

“…Commander Bart?”

Celine looked at the leader of the Knights of Paradiso, who was covered in sweat and dust from his head to his toes, and she asked blankly.

“What are you doing here?”

“…That’s what I should ask Lute… Oh, I heard that only this building was shaking, so I came in to look inside.”

“Did the outside ground shake?”

“It can’t be!”

The commander exclaimed in surprise.

“I came here because a messenger told me that only this building was shaking strangely. I came to see that it actually was. Are you not mistaken that the ground outside is shaking?”

“…Before we even reached this place, the ground shook so much that the horses jumped in fright. Of course, I thought it was an earthquake.”

As Celine explains to Bart, Rose bites her lip and thinks for a moment before opening her mouth.

“Anyway, the vibration seems to be getting bigger and bigger. If we leave it like this…”

Even though she didn’t need to finish her words, both Bart and Celine could understand what they meant.

“This vibration, too, is something that needs to be stopped.”

Celine muttered blankly. This was one of the things she hadn’t experienced in her game.

Bart spoke cautiously

“Before, Lord Leonhard… mentioned that this place is teeming with ghosts. He can’t do anything about it.”

“Leonhard?”

At the name, her eyes widened as Celine doubted her ears for a moment. Although Leonhard struggled a little with the ghost, it didn’t seem too much of a difficult opponent that he couldn’t do anything about it.

“Yes. In fact, it was thanks to Lord Leonhard that we were able to get out of here. Lord Leonhard allowed us to stay at the Grand Duchy’s mansion…”

“…Is that so.”

She was surprised at first but soon discovered that she wasn’t too surprised. After all, it was a Leonhard-like solution… giving one’s own while hurting the least number of people.

At that time, Bart urged the answer to the unanswered question.

“So, for Lute, why are you here…?”

“….”

As Rose clamped her mouth shut, Celine could see that she had fully surrendered her choice of how far she would go to tell Bart.

“Leonhard might be in a maze down here.”

“What…?”

Bart jumped up halfway off the ground, terrified.

“Are, are you kidding?”

“No.”

Celine shook her head.

“Then, this vibration…!”

“Maybe.”

Bart stared at Celine, his mouth gaping open.

“…For Lord Leonhard, it’s really—”

“Reckless. I know.”

“No.”

Bart shook his head.

“I was going to tell you that he is great.”

The next moment, he informed them of the existence of doors that seemed to be related to the underground maze.

“Are you saying Leonhard was surprised at the last door?”

“Yes.”

Bart nodded his head.

“If Lord Leonhard had entered this building to root out the ghosts… there is only that door.”

Celine grimaced.

Of course, the possibility of him being in this underground maze had nothing to do with the ghosts. However, she remembered the beginning of the maze stage that culminates at the end of [ Celine’s Nightmare ]

‘…The ghosts rushed in and then disappeared.’

It was a simple introductory video that had no effect on the main character. Although the impact was quite large, there were players who screamed in surprise at that part.

“I’ll go through that door.”

After a while, they eventually arrived at a kitchen that seemed to have been actively used not so long ago.

“Is that door here?”

“Yes.”

Bart sighed.

“Who would have known that there would be such a heinous thing in a place where people eat food…”

“….!”

Both Celine and Rose gasped in surprise. On the kitchen floor, there was a huge door.

“I don’t understand why they left it as it is.”

“Maybe it didn’t open properly when they tried to open it, so they just left it there.”

Bart yanked the doorknob vigorously though the door did not budge.

“…You’re not very intimidated.”

“On the first day we came here, the idiot who got curious and pulled at the door was my cousin.”

“….”

Celine studied the door attached to the floor for a long time. The massive door, which seemed like a tall person couldn’t cover it even if he lay down, looked heavy even without a hand.

She grabbed the doorknob.

“Are you going to use… magic now?”

“Celine?”

She ignored Bart and Rose’s indirect objection and pulled on the doorknob without any magic.

—Kiik.

The door opened upwards.

“How, how did you do it?”

“It just opens.”

Celine took a deep breath and looked at Bart and Rose.

“Thank you for helping me get this far. Both of you.”

“Celine, what is that…”

Celine ignored Rose’s words.

“I think I can find Leonhard by myself now. So, Commander and Rose, please go back now. I will contact you when I bring Leonhard out.”

She spoke with sincerity.

Even considering the possibility that the true ending route would change, there was a high probability that what was waiting for her was the final stage of [ Celine’s Nightmare ]. It would be easy to predict that the level of difficulty would far exceed the stages that Celine and Leonhard had gone through so far.

“…I can’t.”

“I can’t send you alone, too, Lute Celine.”

Celine shook her head quickly.

‘As expected, this is the only way.’

As she opened her mouth slowly, she tried to give her own voice the utmost authority as she answered.

“If you go down there, you all die.”

She looked straight at Rose with eyes full of strength.

“This is foreknowledge.”